Snappy Ubuntu Core and updating on the Raspberry Pi 2

[David Planella]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Niklas Wenzel <nikwen.developer at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Loïc,
>
> Thank you for your reply.
>
> Given that the Raspberry Pi 2 is presented as one of the officially
> supported platforms in the documentation [1], what is currently keeping
> Canonical from adding the Raspberry Pi 2 builds to their already existing
> image server?
>

Hi Niklas,

Please note that the documentation explicitly mentions that the Raspberry
Pi 2 is not officially supported by snappy yet:

https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/start/#snappy-raspi2


> I recently went ahead and bought one just to try Snappy Ubuntu Core on it
> and it's quite frustrating that you have to set up an image server yourself
> in order to be able to upgrade your installation, which I consider to be
> part of the basic functionality of any OS, especially on a supported
> platform.
>
> When can we expect the official image server to be launched?
>
> Cheers,
> Niklas
>
> [1] https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/
>
>
> Am Di, 28. Apr, 2015 um 10:58 schrieb Loïc Minier <loic.minier at ubuntu.com
> >:
>
> The immediate best short term approach is to run your own system-image
> server to host RPi2 device tarballs and point your device at that server.
>
> System-image installation, configuration and generally operation is
> described in wiki pages starting at:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ImageBasedUpgrades
>
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 7:55 PM, Niklas Wenzel <nikwen.developer at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Any update? It's almost been a week again. ;)
>>
>>
>> Am Di, 21. Apr, 2015 um 5:49 schrieb Niklas Wenzel <
>> nikwen.developer at gmail.com>:
>>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> Thanks for replying. In that case I'll happily wait for the answer.
>> You know, one always forgets about the release as soon as it is running
>> on his own PC already.
>>
>> Btw, I've got the wifi issue sorted out by using the config file from [1]
>> in connection with the method from [2]. As this requires modifying the
>> read-only parts, this is still no satisfying solution but it works for now.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Niklas
>>
>> [1]
>> http://www.dafinga.net/2013/01/how-to-setup-raspberry-pi-with-hidden.html
>> [2]
>> http://www.marinus.nu/2015/02/enabling-wifi-on-snappy-ubuntu-core.html
>>
>> Am Di, 21. Apr, 2015 um 5:26 schrieb John Lenton <
>> john.lenton at canonical.com>:
>>
>> I don't know the answer, but I know that at least one person who knows
>> the answer has seen your email and will be in touch as soon as they are
>> humanly able to do so. It's release week, chaps. Keep up the good work. On
>> 21 April 2015 at 15:27, Niklas Wenzel <nikwen.developer at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Thank you for your reply. :) I tried that a few hours ago but I couldn't
>> get it to work with my wifi network since its SSID is hidden. I'll try some
>> other tutorials on that later (e.g. [1]), but I'd rather not want to mess
>> up with the read-only parts of the system as that may cause issues while
>> upgrading later. Is there any possiblity to get these debs included into
>> the official images? Cheers, Niklas [1]
>> http://www.dafinga.net/2013/01/how-to-setup-raspberry-pi-with-hidden.html
>> Am Di, 21. Apr, 2015 um 4:15 schrieb Gábor Paller <gaborpaller at gmail.com>:
>> Does this help?
>> http://www.marinus.nu/2015/02/enabling-wifi-on-snappy-ubuntu-core.html I
>> have no experience on Raspberry but I use the method in this blog post all
>> the time on BeagleBone Black. Regards, Gabor On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 4:12
>> PM, Niklas Wenzel <nikwen.developer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> No reply yet? In addition to what I wrote in my last email, I'm
>> struggling getting wifi to work on my Raspberry Pi 2. Does anyone have any
>> advice here? [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/snappy-ubuntu/+bug/1446664
>> 2015-04-17 20:44 GMT+02:00 Niklas Wenzel <nikwen.developer at gmail.com>:
>>
>> Hi all, I've been a long-time user of Ubuntu on my desktop and on my
>> Nexus 4. Recently, I've ordered a Raspberry Pi 2 for trying Snappy Ubuntu
>> Core on it. Today, I found out on developer.ubuntu.com that the "snappy
>> update" command does not yet work on the Raspberry Pi 2 due to the lack of
>> a system-image server. [1] I also found a bug report regarding this issue.
>> [2] Since I consider the easy system upgrade mechanism to be one of the
>> coolest features of Snappy Ubuntu Core, my question now is how long it will
>> take until that server is set up. Is anyone currently looking into that?
>> Thank you very much in advance. Cheers, Niklas [1]
>> http://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/start/ [2]
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/snappy-ubuntu/+bug/1429749
>>
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